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Ventriloquism explained : and juggler's tricks, or legerdemain exposed : with remarks on vulgar superstitions. In a series of letters to an instructor

Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · 1834 · Amherst, Ms., J. S. and C. Adams, 1834. · 1 picture

An 1834 instruction book on ventriloquism and conjuring tricks, printed in Amherst, Massachusetts, by J. S. and C. Adams, written as letters addressed to a teacher of the art. The single picture is a vignette engraving of a man in profile within an oval frame, a period portrait a designer could borrow for oval vintage framing and formal nineteenth-century head-and-shoulders compositions.

Magic tricks · Ventriloquism

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